Ummm . . . yes?  Which is why you might consider:

America Is Living James Madison’s Nightmare. “The Founders,” Jeffrey Rosen writes, “designed a government that would resist mob rule. They didn’t anticipate how strong the mob could become.”  Is our democracy dying?

2. How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and […]

I find myself at TeaParty.org from time to time — I get a lot of mail from Steve Scalise worried that the Democrats will take back the House (and cost him his possible speakership), and from right-wing groups (unless they’re KGB sites — who knows?) like Prepared Patriots and The Daily Conspiracy with headlines like […]

Yesterday, I promoted some great protest signs.  Here are some great chalkboard quotes, from a gas station in South Africa.  (And only a couple concern alcohol:  “Stop trying to make everybody happy — you’re not tequila.”  “If you have to choose between drinking wine every day or being skinny, which would you choose?  Red […]

HOW ABOUT AN AWARDS SHOW FOR THE BEST PROTEST SIGNS?

You’ve got your Oscars and your Emmys — how about the Snarkys?  Or the Firsties?  (Hat tip to everyone’s favorite Amendment.)   Here are some.  Here, too.

Among my favorites:

TRUMPCARE.  IT’S LIKE TRUMP UNIVERSITY BUT YOU DIE.

IF THE PRESIDENT DOESN’T […]

Run, don’t walk to rent Active Measures on iTunes — just released ($3.95).  Trump really is Putin’s puppet.  He has laundered billions of dollars of Russian oligarch/mafia money, beginning in 1984.  Putin’s attack on our democracy put him in the White House — and is ongoing.  You have to watch this today.  You may find yourself […]

But first . . .

Here’s an idea: why don’t Bob Corker, Ben Sasse, and Jeff Flake switch parties for the final three months of their Senate service, and save their country?

“We’re so proud of the Republican ideals we’ve long espoused, but one of those ideals is fairness.  It’s not fair to have denied […]